Background
When the past doesn’t leave you alone
A party is held in a fancy house in the villa town, where four teenage boys are guilty of a brutal act of violence.
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Intelligent and mindless satire
Okko Leo's premiere play Ape army springs from meme investing, which became more widely known through the discussion site Reddit. There, small investors who found each other joined forces to buy huge amounts of undervalued stocks. The group, which calls itself monkeys, managed to make big profits and at the same time sway the stock market.
Read moreGreetings from choreographer Anton Lachky
This piece was made for this special dance group, which I had the honor of working with for the first time 15 years ago. It was then that I arrived in your beautiful country for the first time and lost my heart to it.
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History of Helsinki Dance Company
The story of Helsinki Dance Company began in 1965 when the Helsinki City Theatre was founded, when the theatre started the Theatre Dance School, a training programme for 25 dancers. The dancers mainly performed in musicals, and their choreographer was Heikki Värtsi from 1965 to 1968.
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Dancer’s speech
As the dance group of the Helsinki City Theatre turns 50 this year, my own professional career as a dancer is twenty years old. Of those 20 years, I have danced in the ranks of a dance company for 16. With the exception of the birth of my two children and one six-month working holiday with an artist grant, days, weeks, months and years have passed here. The home of my professional identity is here, in the dance group of the Helsinki City Theatre.
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